Tag: Western Australia
Refugee treatment in spotlight
HOW Australia treats refugees will be the focus of a lecture on human rights in Armidale by the Honourable Judi Moylan MP next Wednesday...
Eli Wolfe plays this Friday
Eli Wolfe is a curious and creative soul with a fascination for science, history and philosophy and a penchant for capturing the beauty and...
Mental health in rural areas study underway
A large-scale biological, medical and social study of mental health in rural and regional Australia has just begun at the University of New England.
The...
UNE agronomist among inaugural ASA Fellows
The Australian Society of Agronomists (ASA) has named the University of New England’s Professor Graeme Blair as one of its inaugural Fellows.
Professor Blair and...
Defence spending
Although Green ALP has just cut defence spending to 1.5 per cent of the 2012-13 Budget -- just $6 billion over the next four...
Graham Betts onboard with Outdoor Expo since the beginning
Major sponsor of the 2012 New England Outdoor Recreation Expo and owner of the local Armidale Holden Dealership, Graham Betts, knows a thing or...
Kennelly takes on top players
Woolbrook’s James Kennelly said the opportunity to play at the Australian Schoolboys Rugby Union championships last month as part of the Combined States XV...
Artworks and artefacts in new exhibitions
The Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place will open two new exhibitions on Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 6.00pm. The local and surrounding communities...
Historic Aboriginal Debutante Ball
Ironically, the establishment of Armidale in 1839 as the government town was the result of massacres which happened elsewhere in the 1830s. For instance,...
Martin Mischkulnig and Tim Winton pool artistic talent
A new exhibition opening on Friday, May 11 at NERAM features stunning colour photographs of rural and remote Australia by Martin Mischkulnig, together with...
No 92 Federation and Armidale, Part 11
Federation stories are just one of many reminders of how Australia was dependent on the Poms. Even after five of the Australian Colonies had...
No 90 Federation and Armidale, Part 9
Federation has now completed 110 years. We continue the Federation story from where we ended last week, when the National Australasian Convention produced a...
